MEC CODE-A-PHONE UPDATE - May 22, 2007
This is Richard Obermeyer with a US Airways MEC update for Tuesday, May 22nd, with four new items.
Item 1. US Airways MEC Chairman Jack Stephan has recorded a Chairman’s Message that will be posted in ‘What’s New’ and emailed to all pilots. This message, which reviews the first day of ALPA’s Executive Board meeting, can be heard by pressing prompt 2 on the code a phone.
Item 2. Captain Prater opened the 99th meeting of ALPA's Executive Board today. In his remarks Captain Prater acknowledged the hundreds of US Airways pilots who made the trip to ALPA headquarters yesterday. He stated that since many pilots cannot understand or accept the award of the arbitrator that our union has a problem and therefore an obligation to find solutions to those problems. You can read the text of his remarks at crewroom.alpa.org.
Item 3. Two important ALPA-supported bills, H.R. 2103 and S. 1270, the Pilots Equitable Treatment Act, were recently introduced in Congress. If enacted, they could have a major positive impact on your retirement benefits. Your help is needed in a grass roots effort to immediately contact your U.S. Senators and Representative. To do this, log in to crewroom.alpa.org and click on the Pension Reform Link and then click on the Action Alert logo. Using the information provided, urge your legislators to sponsor and support passage of H.R. 2103 and S. 1270. For complete background information on these bills, go to crewroom.alpa.org.
Item 4. An ALPA Safety Bulletin on runway incursion risks at MKE has been posted under What's New. This bulletin contains information, a map, and recommendations on operating into MKE. All pilots are asked to read this bulletin.
W.A.R. Item 516
FAA AIM, Chapter 8, 8-1-1, Fitness for flight
Paragraph F2, Most pilots do not leave stress “on the ground.†Therefore, when more than usual difficulties are being experienced, a pilot should consider delaying flight until these difficulties are satisfactorily resolved.
Please remember we still have 1,469 pilots on furlough, 276 pilots have been recalled and on May 14th, the most junior seniority number was 4,437 with a seniority date of October 25, 1999.
As always, look out for each other, keep your families first, fly safe and thanks for listening.
This is Richard Obermeyer with a US Airways MEC update for Tuesday, May 22nd, with four new items.
Item 1. US Airways MEC Chairman Jack Stephan has recorded a Chairman’s Message that will be posted in ‘What’s New’ and emailed to all pilots. This message, which reviews the first day of ALPA’s Executive Board meeting, can be heard by pressing prompt 2 on the code a phone.
Item 2. Captain Prater opened the 99th meeting of ALPA's Executive Board today. In his remarks Captain Prater acknowledged the hundreds of US Airways pilots who made the trip to ALPA headquarters yesterday. He stated that since many pilots cannot understand or accept the award of the arbitrator that our union has a problem and therefore an obligation to find solutions to those problems. You can read the text of his remarks at crewroom.alpa.org.
Item 3. Two important ALPA-supported bills, H.R. 2103 and S. 1270, the Pilots Equitable Treatment Act, were recently introduced in Congress. If enacted, they could have a major positive impact on your retirement benefits. Your help is needed in a grass roots effort to immediately contact your U.S. Senators and Representative. To do this, log in to crewroom.alpa.org and click on the Pension Reform Link and then click on the Action Alert logo. Using the information provided, urge your legislators to sponsor and support passage of H.R. 2103 and S. 1270. For complete background information on these bills, go to crewroom.alpa.org.
Item 4. An ALPA Safety Bulletin on runway incursion risks at MKE has been posted under What's New. This bulletin contains information, a map, and recommendations on operating into MKE. All pilots are asked to read this bulletin.
W.A.R. Item 516
FAA AIM, Chapter 8, 8-1-1, Fitness for flight
Paragraph F2, Most pilots do not leave stress “on the ground.†Therefore, when more than usual difficulties are being experienced, a pilot should consider delaying flight until these difficulties are satisfactorily resolved.
Please remember we still have 1,469 pilots on furlough, 276 pilots have been recalled and on May 14th, the most junior seniority number was 4,437 with a seniority date of October 25, 1999.
As always, look out for each other, keep your families first, fly safe and thanks for listening.
